First, chicken slimming soup
Ingredients: wax gourd with skin 1.5 kg, chicken 1 piece, 4 Liang lean pork, 0/0 mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), 0/5 jujube/kloc-0, 2 slices ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.
Exercise:
1. Wash chicken and lean pork, cut into pieces and blanch.
2, mushrooms, tea for three hours or one night (don't pour the mushroom water).
3. Red dates are reserved for pit removal.
4. Slice the melon skin.
5. Boil the cooked meat, add chicken, lean pork, jujube, mushrooms, mushroom water and ginger, cook with strong fire for 10 minute, then simmer for 2 hours, then add wax gourd and skin slices for 30 minutes, and season with salt.
This soup has the functions of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, strengthening spleen and stomach, eliminating edema, benefiting qi and nourishing blood, and waking up, and is suitable for obese people with iron deficiency anemia, edema, cough with excessive phlegm, pale face and tepid hands and feet.
Second, the nutritional composition of chicken
1, chicken is more than raw pork, beef and mutton, with high protein content and low body fat content. In addition, chicken protein contains essential carbohydrates, and its content is very similar to that in eggs and milk, so it is the source of food in protein. The protein content of chicken varies according to the position, skin and skin, and the order from high to low is skinless chicken, breast and thigh. Chicken skin contains a lot of ester chemicals, so don't treat it as a low-fat food.
2. Chicken is also a good source of phosphorus, iron, copper and zinc. It contains sufficient vitamin B 12, vitamin B6, vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin K, etc.
3. Compared with beef and raw pork, chicken contains more unsaturated fats-fatty acid and linolenic acid, which can reduce the content of high-density protein carbohydrates that are not conducive to physical and mental health.
Third, the role of wax gourd
Ancient people knew that wax gourd had the function of slimming. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Meng Wan's Herbs of Dietotherapy said: "Those who are hot eat it, those who are cold eat it, and those who are thin eat it. Cooked vegetables practice the five internal organs and die for them. " In addition, according to Compendium of Materia Medica, wax gourd can nourish blood and relieve annoyance. "Want to thin to light can eat for a long time. If they want to be fat, don't eat. "
Fourth, the beauty and skin care effect of wax gourd
At the same time, wax gourd also has a good beauty and skin care function. For example, the book "The Holy Records" in the Tang Dynasty introduced in detail the ancient people's methods of making facial fat with wax gourd for beauty. In addition, according to Compendium of Materia Medica, the white and soft flesh of wax gourd can remove chloasma and make the skin soft and tender. "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" describes that winter melon seeds can make people "look better"; Daming Materia Medica says that it can cure dermatitis and make skin full; Winter melon seeds were a regular medicine in flour fat in ancient times.
Five, the nutritional components of wax gourd
1, wax gourd contains more Vc, higher potassium and lower acetate.
2. Propanolic diacid often contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into human fat.
3. Wax gourd juice and wax gourd extract can increase the urine volume of small animals, alleviate the level of nephritis caused by mercury chloride, and obviously reduce the content of serum protein muscle intoxication. Pathology and pathology show that the total amino acids (ambassador dose) of wax gourd and trigonelline of wax gourd have significant protective and blocking effects on mercury-induced renal injury.
4. Wax gourd seeds are rich in human fat oil, adenine, protein sugar, vitamin B 1 vitamin B2, niacin and fenugreek.